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Royal Society Tresham College Art & Design technician Katie Brosnan has been shortlisted for the Royal Society “Young People’s Book Prize”
comprehend the significance of our microbiome – it helps to educate the future generation about science fields with emergent interest.” Katie Brosnan is an author and illustrator who has ‘always been a little bit short’ and appreciates the smaller things in life. She has a long-standing fascination with microbes and their superpowers. She loves absorbing information and trying to make it as fun and accessible as possible. Katie achieved an MA in Children’s Book Illustration from the Cambridge School of Art in 2018. She was one of the UK winners in the ‘Picture This!’ competition and highly commended in the Macmillan prize for Illustration in the same year. When she isn’t drawing or working on books, she helps to run workshops for children and likes to make her own fermented foods full of microbes in her home in Kettering, Northamptonshire. Gut Garden is her first non-fiction book, it was long-listed for the School Library Association Information Book Award in 2020.
https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/bookprizes/young-peoples-book-prize/ Gut Garden: A Journey into the Wonderful World of Your Microbiome by Katie, is a visual exploration of the universe that exists within human bodies. Bodies hide an entire world of organisms called microbes. They boost immune systems, digest food, regulate metabolism and even impact on mental health.
The Young People’s Book Prize aims to promote literacy in young people and to inspire them to read about science. It also supports the writing of excellent, accessible STEM books for under-14s. The prize is unique in that the winner is selected by judging panels made up of young people at schools across the country from a shortlist curated by an adult judging panel. Now it’s over to the scrutinising eyes of over 13,000 young judges, drawn from over 500 schools, science centres, and community groups from across the UK, to read and declare their champion. The winner will be announced at a virtual award ceremony taking place midMarch 2021.
raises awareness of local support services Staff from the Production Arts Level 3 at Tresham College in Kettering have been working with local support service, Northamptonshire Domestic Abuse Services (NDAS) to provide good work experience opportunities and create powerful images to be shared on social media pages to raise awareness of the service within the local community. Last year Zoe, a representative from NDAS, worked with staff and students to provide a brief for students to create images as a live project for a client that provides a support service for victims of domestic abuse and their families in Northamptonshire. Students set to work on creating the make-up looks on themselves more recently due to COVID-19, however at the end of last year students were able to work with friends/family members of the same household or bubble modelling for them. NDAS is extremely pleased with the work produced by Tresham College students.
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Our first rapid testing hub went live at the Kettering campus on 15 January and was quickly followed by our hubs in Bedford and Shuttleworth going live the week after. Additionally, a provision for 7 members of staff at Corby to be tested was also co-ordinated by the Kettering team. Mel Tew from Human Resources has been leading the Kettering team, with Amanda Riches from BCS leading the Bedford Team and Barrie Baldwin from Health & Safety with Margaret Currie from Central Admin leading the team at Shuttleworth – we could not have achieved setting these hubs up without our team leaders and are extremely grateful for the additional work they have taken on to implement this project. Our teams have been made up of a mixture of core staff who have volunteered to take on this additional work, BCS staff who have returned from furlough to support us and Associates who have provided valuable hour and we are very appreciative of every single one of them and the efforts they have put in. In the first month the teams have carried out 410 staff tests and 40 student tests for those currently attending our campuses. We would like to thank everyone for their hard work in this project.
ISBN: 978-1908714725
Through Katie Brosnan’s personable illustrations, the book follows the digestive process from the moment food enters the mouth to when waste leaves. Along the way the book explains about this fascinating scientific frontier and gives an insight into the vast ecosystem that exists inside the human body. The shortlist was selected by an adult judging panel, chaired by Professor Mike Kendall FRS, including Cressida Cowell, the Waterstones Children’s Laureate and authorillustrator of the How to Train Your Dragon books, and former Blue Peter presenter and author Konnie Huq. Judge Cressida Cowell, Waterstones Children’s Laureate, said: “This book was very interesting, the wonderful little characters brought it to life. The field is growing, with scientists only now beginning to Pg.10
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